Improvement in combined freight and stock car



J. R. MAITLAND.

v COMBINED FREIGHT'AND STOCK CAR. No.188,526.

Patented March 20,1877.

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N. PETERS. PHOTO-UTMOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON, DC.

UNITED STATES PATENT Qrmcn.

JONES R. MAITLAND, o HoT-sPRINcs, ARKANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED FRE IGHT AND STOCK CAR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 188,526, dated March 20, 1877; application filed February 17, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONES R. MAITLAND, of Hot Springs, in the county of Garland and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and Improved Combined Freight and Stock Car, of which the followingis a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figures 1 and 2 represent side elevations of my improved combination freight and stock car, showing the same, respectively, from the outside and carrying service.

The invention consists of a freight-car, with jointly-sliding upper and lower sections, that either close or open the upper and lower openings of the car. The upper sections are guided by friction-rollers on 'guidestrips, and

' moved in division-casings with inclined bottom rails, having suitable'openings for the shedding of the entering rain.

-In the drawing, A represents the side wall or frame ofa freight-car, which is provided with upper air openings a and lower grated openings 1). These openings may be opened or closed, according as the car is intended to be used as a stock 01' freight car, by sliding sections-B and G, of which the lower sections B are guided by suitable strips 61, and connected by wire ropes 0 running over pulleys e of the jambs, with the upper sections 0. The rope-and-pulley.connection of the sliding sections B and 0 produces the joint motion of the sections when the lower one is raised or lowered. The upper section 0 is guided by friction-rollers f along projecting side guidesstrips f, to obtain the steady motion and position of the same, without binding on the jamb. l

, A division piece or casing, D, is arranged between the upper and lower sections, so as to part the same, the dividing-piece Dhaving an inclined bottom rail, g, that forms also the top of the iron bars of the grating, and serves to shed the water entering in storms or rain at the upper section, through a groove or opening out between said rail and outer sheathing to the inclined bottom-or sill of the lower opening, from where it is conveyed to the outside. The lower sectlon B has also a watershedding weather strip, 9, to prevent the beating of the rain from below, keeping thereby the inside of the car dry in stormy weather.

When stock is transported the sections are thrown open and locked by sliding or spring boltsh of the lower sections. When freight is to be shipped the sections are closed in sim-' ilar manner, providing thus a stock or freight car. as required by the service of the road.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Pat- 'ent l. The combination, with a car, A, having upper and lower side openings a b of jointlysliding sections B and O, to open or close said openings, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the upper air-opening a and -lower grated opening b of the car with guided and slidingsections connected by ropes and pulleys, substantially as specified.

3. The coxnbination'of the jointly-moving sections B O with an intermediate dividing piece or casing, D, having a water-shedding rail and exit groove or opening, for the purpose described.

J. R. MAITLAND. Witnesses:

S. P. YOUNG, G. H. SGHUTTE. 

